How Do We Know When Students Are Engaged?

(Updated 11/2013) Educational author and former teacher, Dr. Michael Schmoker shares in his book, Results Now, a study that found of 1,500 classrooms visited, 85 percent of them had engaged less than 50 percent of the students. In other words, only 15 percent of the classrooms had more than half of the class at least paying attention to the lesson. So, how do they know if a student is engaged? Teacher-Directed Learning You will see students... Paying attention (alert, tracking with their eyes) Taking notes (particularly Cornell) Listening (as opposed to chatting, or sleeping) Asking questions (content related, or in a game, like 21 questions or I-Spy) Responding to questions (whole group, small group, four corners, Socratic Seminar) Following requests (participating, Total Physical Response (TPR), storytelling, Simon Says) Reacting (laughing, crying, shouting, etc.) Student-Directed Learning You see students individually or in small groups... Activity and Ownership

The Effect of Special Education Student Participation and Engagement in Mathematics on Student Achievement Table of Contents List of Tables ...................................................................................................................... v List of Figures .................................................................................................................... vi ii iii iv per Course .................................................................................................. 123 Appendix G: Total Teacher Student Interactions per Course during the Two Mathematics Lesson Sessions ..................................................................... 124 Curriculum Vitae ............................................................................................................ 125 v List of Tables Table 1. of Student Type versus Participation in Mathematics Lesson Sessions ........................................................................................... 67 Table 3. vi List of Figures Figure 1. Section 1: Introduction to the Study which is the problem.